THIS IS IT
Travis and I seriously needed something soothing and pretty to watch before bed this week, so we started a nature show — The Secret Lives of Animals, narrated by Hugh Bonneville, on Apple TV. I was scrolling through our queues,…
SIMPLY PUT
“The time is always right to do what is right.”- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Monday, January 20, 2025,…
ICE BREAKER
“For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.”Lennon/McCartney This line from the Beatles’ “Hey Jude” makes me misty every time, especially when I sing it out loud. I cry,…
ON THE BRINK
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.”~ Lord Byron Life is always on the brink, always becoming, forever tumbling into everything next. Of course, this isn’t any more true at the…
BREATHER
A friend sent me a quote this week: “You’ve been strong all year, so don’t finish strong, finish rested.” It’s a kind wish. But also a little challenging, confronting. Because I recognize that, if given the options of finishing strong…
FOR YOUR INCONVENIENCE
With three cats, we do a lot of lint-rolling. Often, it takes each of us several sheets before we can leave the house. Even then, bright sunshine usually reveals still more cat hair. It’s ridiculous, especially in corduroy and sweater…
MERCY BUCKETS
I’ve been vibing with the Prayer of St. Francis these past couple of weeks. I don’t like feeling knocked-down and kicked-about by circumstance, so rarely do I linger there long. I am trying to direct my emotional energy, as much…
IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
I’m preparing to audition next month for Musical Theatre Southwest’s production of Man of La Mancha. It seems an especially timely show for the first quarter of the new year, offering a message of persistent hope through the most trying…
WORK ON
Oh, my friends... Nothing that I thought I might write and talk about this week is anything that I want to talk or write about anymore. Not right now, at least. It all sounds naive or stupid, simplistic or fake.…
History in the Making
Dr. King noted, “We are made by history.” Who we are is a product of everyone and everything that has come before. The genetic material in our cells is the unimaginably complex consummation of a trillion trillion connections. Contemporary society,…